Rafe34 wrote...
@Emzaniation: And what if a mage does not want to be leashed to a phylactery, so that the government knows where he is at all times? Do you force it on them?
Mages use blood magic a lot more than just when they are forced into a corner. How was Merrill forced into a corner? Grace?
You are essentially saying that because people have done something one way for a thousand years, we should hold everyone within that system guilty for its abuses, destroy the entire system, and dictate to the masses that you are going to have our way, (no chantry, and just a few temples here and there), period.
You are throwing the baby out with the bath-water. The Circle is a necessary evil to prevent an even greater one.
I don't remember Wynne's apprentice, I shall have to look him up. As for Morrigan, the templars came after them because of Flemeth. You know, the crazy demon lady who kidnaps little girls from their families and then possesses their bodies so she can live for thousands of years? Yeah, she's kinda the definition of evil- they were after her. We are given no evidence beyond Morrigan's word that they were even aware of her- and how would the templars tracking her and what she thought to be her mother down, look to a little girl? Of course it looks like they're trying to kill her, because they know what Flemeth is/was.
Keeping every mage leashed to a phylactery merely allows you to know where one who has turned into a blood mage, is. It will not give you enough time to actually stop their initial rampage, just you will be able to eventually kill them after they've killed many innocents. Big whoop.
I'm saying, that if you, in essence, launch a holy war AGAINST the chantry, you will turn the populace on you. It's not a matter of right or wrong, it's a matter of tactics, and knowing how the masses think. You point out the flaws in the system, and you get people agreeing with you, and then you have enough support to fix those flaws. If you start out by saying that the Divine needs to die because of what she was contemplating doing- which I honestly can't believe you said that, especially since you get that from the same epilogue that says Morrigan may even be pregnat, when you very well could have ended Origins so that she was not, and regardless, we don't execute people for what they contemplate doing- you're going to turn many people against you that would be fine trying to fix the Chantry's flaws.
War is messy, but some are not worth winning at any cost. Especially not when you can achieve your goals far easier than saying you want "the Divine's head on a pike." It immediately brands your rebellion as extreme and limits the number of people who might wish to join you, while bringing in more people who are willing to do anything to bring down the Chantry. Sure, you might eventually bring it down, but is it worth it if you destroy Thedas in the process?
So we are using two people as examples that mages will turn to blood magic without being pushed into a corner? Didn't Grace learn blood magic while she and the others were being hunted by the templars?
Merrill is the worst example to use if trying to say or show that blood mages are evil. The magic itself is not evil, It is just that most mages who use it have evil(in the minds of templars and the chantry) intent. The fact that they stop relying on thier own blood and start spilling the blood of others also hurt it's rep. Merrill uses her own blood to perform her blood magic and has only the interest of her people in mind. She even understands the dangers of dealing with demons(or the darker spirits of the fade) and treats them with caution. I blame the death of the keeper on herself since she decided that Merrill would end up releasing the demon and getting taken over with no trust in her. She brought that fate on herself.
If we look at how the chantry works,then judging them by what they contemplate doing is reasonable and seems to be the norm. It does seem to be the stance they took on Mages. this mage might do this or might become that,so lets take them all and lock them up while stripping them of their rights.
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You start to realise that mages are seriously oppressed, be it good or a bad, i think everyone could agree Anders could have gone about it a better way, but the world is changing and we saw signs of the mages problem all throughout the story in DA:O.
